Charles River in Asia-Pacific (APAC)
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Charles River’s clients in Asia Pacific
Charles River serves around 100 client sites across 14 countries in Asia Pacific. With 50 specialists in the region, many of them bilingual Japanese/English and Mandarin/English speakers, Charles River maintains Asia Pacific headquarters in Melbourne, offices in Tokyo, Singapore and Beijing and has a regional presence in Brisbane, Sydney and Hong Kong.
Below is a sample client list of buy-side investment management firms in Asia Pacific who rely on Charles River Investment Management System (Charles River IMS) to streamline their workflows and facilitate straight-through processing:
- Aberdeen Asset Management: Multiple locations across Asia Pacific
- Ayudhya Fund Management Co., Ltd: Thailand
- BT Funds Management/Westpac: Australia
- CIMB Principal Asset Management Berhad: Malaysia
- LG Investment Group: Australia
- Mitsubishi UFJ Asset Management: Japan
- Nomura Asset Management: Japan
- Nissay Asset Management: Japan
- Prudential Asset Management: Multiple locations across Asia Pacific
- Schroders Investment Management: Multiple locations across Asia Pacific
- Telstra Super: Australia
- Promina Group / Tyndall Investment Management: Australia, New Zealand
Local markets drive Charles River’s development in Asia Pacific
Charles River has organically grown its business around the globe; much of its growth has been driven by its success in localizing the Charles River IMS for specific markets. Firms with multiple sites across Asia Pacific as well as other regions can employ Charles River IMS to satisfy all their local requirements.
Charles River IMS manages the most complex and diverse instruments and workflows to suit the needs of heterogeneous APAC markets. Examples include:
- Instrument support: Full multi-currency capabilities across all asset classes and complex APAC securities such as Thai, Australian and Korean bonds.
- Language support: Local languages incorporated into a user interface, such as Japanese and Chinese characterization.
- Compliance support: Comprehensive regulatory coverage via standard rule libraries for APAC markets such as:
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- Australia: ASIC Substantial Holdings
- Hong Kong: Securities and Future Commission (SFC) and Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority (MPF)
- Japan: Investment Trust Association (ITA)
- Singapore: Monetary Authority of Singapore Collective Investment Schemes (CIS) and Central Provident Fund Board (CPF)
- Electronic trading support:
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- Embedded APAC algorithms available from the Charles River IMS desktop, including ITG, UBS, Macquarie Securities, Nomura, and Deutsche Bank, among others
- Access to local execution venues, such as Yieldbroker, Liquidnet, TradeWeb and MarketAxess
- Market data vendors: Integration with Charles River IMS to provide real-time views of portfolio and trading activities, e.g., Japanese equity operations
- Open integration framework: Modern alternatives for integration with local third party systems including: Barra, Bonanza, HiPortfolio, Thomson PORTIA® and many more.
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Local commitment and expertise
Charles River established its first office in Asia Pacific in 2004, and it has since organically grown its business in the region:
- Extensive, blue-chip client base: Charles River now serves around 100 client sites across the region.
- In tune with client- and region-specific requirements: Charles River IMS is available with full Chinese or Japanese language and supports region-specific security types and associated workflows.
- Committed to the region: We maintain Asia Pacific headquarters in Melbourne, offices in Tokyo, Singapore and Beijing and have a regional presence in Brisbane, Sydney and Hong Kong.
- Involved at the grass-root level: Charles River hosts user groups and advisory councils in some of its Asia Pacific markets.
- Regional support: Charles River provides 24/7 “follow the sun” technical and product support through our team of multilingual professionals, fluent in languages such as in English, Mandarin and Japanese. In Asia Pacific, bilingual Japanese/English and Mandarin/English support staff, based in our Singapore and Tokyo offices, respectively, are available during business hours.